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50 Heller Tausendblum
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tausendblum (Municipality of Tausendblum) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned Notgeld kassenschein with an Art Nouveau-style border of intertwining floral and foliate motifs. At upper centre, the denomination '50 HELLER' appears in red within bordered corner cartouches, flanked by the bold black header 'KASSENSCHEIN' and the issuing authority 'DER GEMEINDE TAUSENDBLUM'. The central text block carries the obligation statement in German script, below which appear three manuscript signatures with the printed titles Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Beisitzer; to the right, a classically draped female figure holding a cornucopia is rendered in fine letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gültig bis 30. September 1920. ARBEIT LOHNT 50 HELLER Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Tausendblum is a small village in Lower Austria — today known as Tisovník, now part of Slovakia — that issued this 50 Heller note as Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria-Hungary's collapse. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities did the same between 1919 and 1922, but the hyperlocal issuers from borderland communities like Tausendblum add a particular wrinkle: the village itself would soon fall outside Austrian jurisdiction entirely as post-war boundaries were redrawn.
The JPR (Jaksch) reference places it firmly in the catalogued Austrian Notgeld corpus, though borderland issues from this transitional period are among the harder series to track in terms of actual redemption history.